Vargas Organisation, London 2003
20 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0952027488
19 x 25.5 cm English text. Softcover
INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy's second report to the International Necronautical Society analyses and maps the testimony of the witnesses arraigned at the Second First Committee Hearings held at London's Cubitt Gallery in 2002 on the subjects of wireless communication, cryptography and broadcasting. McCarthy develops the themes of encoding, encryption and entombment, transmission, subjectivity and death, as a model for the INS's own Radio Broadcasting Network which will be installed at ICA, London, in 2004.
The Report was delivered to the first public session of the INS Communications and Encodings Subcommittee held at the ICA before the press and public.
In Cocteau's 1950 film Orphée, in scenes modelled on the secret communications networks operated by the Résistance during the Second World War, the hero hears lines of coded radio transmissions from a dead poet. In Calling All Agents, INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy argues that this conjunction of the technological, the aesthetic and the political is loaded with contemporary significance. He maps the transmission-reception figure across Freud, Heidegger, Hergé, Burroughs and Nabokov, the invention of the telephone and the discovery of Tutenkhamun, connecting it with contemporary artistic strategies and wireless technologies. Price: £5.00
Hamburger Kunsthalle 2004
144 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775714448
22.5 x 27.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Mona Hatoum has long been regarded in Great Britain and the U.S. as one of the most important artists of her generation. The daughter of Palestinian parents, she was born in Lebanon in 1952 and has lived in London since 1975. Life outside her homeland has heightened Mona Hatoum's sensitivity to the themes of power and identity, which are leitmotivs in her oeuvre. Many of her objects, video pieces, and installations deal with aspects of institutionalised violence and the vulnerability of the individual. Her central point of reference is the body-in many cases her own.
This is the first book to document the growth of Mona Hatoum's oeuvre and includes even her most recent projects. All of her works can be read as formulas for human existence-expressed in a penetrating visual language that is both complex and puzzling. As the artist herself points out, "One's first experience of a work of art is physical. I appreciate works that have sensual as well as intellectual impact. Meanings, connotations, and associations begin to emerge only after the initial physical experience, when the imagination, the intellect, and the psyche are ignited by what one has seen." Price: £19.99
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum der Gegenwart, Berlin 2003
84 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775713379
22.5 x 28.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Ron Mueck's fascinating figures have made him a public favorite virtually overnight. This catalogue featuring his collected works shows the inescapable emotional impact of his art.
Visitors to the Venice Biennale in 2001 were highly impressed by the sculpture Boy-standing five meters tall-by London-based artist Ron Mueck, who was born in Melbourne in 1958. Harald Szeemann called the sculpture "the sphinx of the exhibition," and it soon became its landmark. The monumental, crouching figure of a youth makes a vulnerable, defensive impression, and yet its watchful eye seems to miss nothing. Mueck's human figures are always technically perfect, absolutely realistic, deliberately undersized or oversized. He first models them in clay and then takes a hollow cast which he fills with silicone or fiberglass. The finished models have delicate networks of veins and fine hairs, even seeming to breathe. Their perfection is always in the service of the transmission of contents, however: viewers are touched and set thinking by the emotional quality of figures like Pregnant Woman or Dead Dad-created by the artist after the death of his father. Mueck's sculptures have a great presence: of human features and yet artificial, they refer to fundamental questions, allowing a wealth of associations. Price: £14.99
Edition Hansjörg Mayer 2004
320 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0500976309
24 x 31 cm English text. Hardcover
Dieter Roth was a multi-faceted artist, as is shown in this third volume in a series of books featuring works from the Dieter Roth Foundation. He worked in many media and "Books + Multiples" includes over 200 artist's books, 40 multiples, jewellery, films, videos, tapes, records and posters produced over a 50-year period. Beginning in the 1950s, Dieter Roth took the artist's book in new directions. Starting with Op Art and visual poetry books, he then experimented with all aspects of offset printing and by the 1990s was producing "copy books", using photocopiers. His multiples were equally innovative, incorporating materials such as chocolate, sugar and spices. Dieter Roth began filmmaking in his mid-20s, and his interest in moving images and sound remained to the end. The jewellery editions shed light on a little-known aspect of his early work, while the last section of the book shows all his poster designs.
This book is the third in the series comprising the Dieter Roth Catalogue Raisonné, this publication also includes a free audio CD featuring ten tracks of Roth's own music and music in collaboration with others. Price: £35.00
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188 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775713778
25 x 33 cm English text. Softcover
The Danish Contemporary Art Foundation has chosen the artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) to represent Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. A crucial part of Eliasson's work at the Venice Biennale, this book does not merely serve as a representative reading of the exhibition, but has the character of a counterpart to it.
In close collaboration with the Danish author Svend Åge Madsen, who has persistently challenged our notions of time and space in his writings, a number of Danish and foreign authors, poets, and theoreticians were invited to contribute texts that explore our constantly shifting and ever-evolving capacity for orienting ourselves. The texts serve as an examination of how we physically and psychologically orient ourselves in the world-and of what happens when we are deprived of for example our ability to hear and remember, to expect something, or to experience the passage of time. The texts are linked together by Svend Åge Madsen. The book is designed by cyan, Berlin, and has no beginning and no end.
Text by Rodney M.J. Cotterill, Olafur Eliasson, Karl Holmqvist, Frida Björk Ingvarsdóttir, Jakob Jakobsen, Svend Age Madsen and Gitte Orskou u.a. Price: £39.99
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein 2003
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775713492
24 x 32 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Daniel Richter, born at Eutin in 1962 and today based in Berlin and Hamburg, is one of those German artists who in the second half of the nineties set off to conquer the international art world. He succeeded in doing so, even though - or perhaps because - it was in a time dominated by the so-called new media and conceptual space installations and the "end of painting" had once more been proclaimed that he remained loyal to his medium. He has been celebrated as the new "prince of painting" next to Neo Rauch and others. Until 2000, Daniel Richter painted abstract pictures exclusively. His newer works show a surprising turn towards the figurative, blending a sophisticated use of color and composition as well as a wealth of grotesque elements of form and art historic quotations into a style uniquely his.
This large-format publication is the first to present Daniel Richter´s drawings in all color illustrations. Price: £19.99
Twin Palms Publishers 2003
160 pages Colour reproductions ISBN 1931885230
37 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
A Storybook Life is presented through over 70 works made over 20 years and edited and sequenced to suggest a network of interconnected lives and stories. The same protagonists re-appear at different stages of their lives. They rarely look at us or at each other - instead, they are absorbed in their own worlds of reflection.
Domestic interiors and urban and rural landscapes provide a resonant backdrop, cinematically charged with a sense of threat or longing. A white picket-fenced house is perched incongruously in a barren landscape. A lush garden appears in a jungle of concrete and steel. A jumble of unopened Christmas presents languish beneath a heavily decorated tree. Moving between urban and rural, private and public, moments of connection and of intense isolation, A Storybook Life offers an epic view of everyday existence. Price: £57.00
Peer 2003
12 pages Colour reproductions throughout. ISBN
20 x 15 cm English text. Softcover
Mikey Cuddihy's paintings inhabit both public and personal domains. Telephone jottings - snippets of messages and conversations subconsciously scribbled down or arrangements to be made with friends and family - are photocopied and pasted onto the canvas. Over this, coloured cutout shapes derived from these doodles become leitmotifs for the work, hovering among painted calligraphic marks in a field of decorative activity. The private resonance of the underlying sheets of A4 paper that draw you into the paintings vie with the lyrical abstract shapes that dance across their surface. These overlaid patterns, curlicues and cartoonesque biomorphisms hover as a formal or sensual response to the chatter of life glimpsed below. Associations with repetitive wallpaper patterning, however, are dodged by the dripping paint and an overtly intuitive touch. Price: £3.00
Kunstverein Hannover 2003
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775712658
17.5 x 24.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Since his appearance at the Venice Biennale in 2001 and at Documenta11, Luc Tuymans has become one of the most important painters of his generation. Since the end of the eighties, the Belgian artist has been developing an extraordinarily complex work, combining the question of representation and representability - inherent in any kind of painting - with a radical charging of pictorial motives. On the basis of a structure that is coolly figurative and drawing-like, and always relying on material that was pre-processed medially (Polaroid shots, newspaper clippings, film stills), he creates calm, small- format pictures of cropped landscapes, objects, architecture, and, frequently, also mask-like people. In their pastel haziness, often primed with white, these picture evade concrete designation.
This book presents a representative selection of Tuymans´ works as well as a large set of specially created new works delimited by two central picture groups: on the one hand the cycle Die Zeit (Time) (1988) about the holocaust, on the other the series Passion (1999) about the essence of religious belief.
Texts by Stephan Berg, Konrad Bitterli and Philippe Pirotte
Price: £16.99
